Netlfix has released first-look images from the upcoming series 100 Years of Solitude, based on Gabriel García Márquez's classic novel, Deadline reported. The adaptation will be split into two eight-episode seasons, and the first will launch on December 11. The project has been sanctioned by the family of the author.
Dynamo, producer of Narcos and Falco, is making the series. Alex García López (The Witcher) and Laura Mora (The Kings of the World, Colombia's 2023 Oscar entry) share directing duties.
The team behind the project "started looking for the cast in 2022 and estimate they saw over 10,000 candidates for the 25 main characters across the seven generations of the Buendía family," Deadline reported. The cast includes Claudio Cataño (Colonel Aureliano Buendía), Jerónimo Barón (young Aureliano Buendía), Marco González (Jose Arcadio Buendía), Susana Morales (Úrsula Iguarán), Ella Becerra (Petronila), Carlos Suaréz (Aureliano Iguarán), and Moreno Borja (Melquiades).
Production designers Eugenio Caballero, Oscar winner for Pan's Labyrinth, and Bárbara Enríquez, Oscar nominated for Roma, oversaw the building of four versions of Macondo to reflect the passage of time. The producers "sourced period furniture from local antique stores and other fabrics and artifacts were made by local artisans," Deadline noted. "The attention to detail extended to the costume team, led by Catherine Rodríguez, which conducted painstaking research based mainly on the national records and on watercolors available from the time."